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Dear friends of the gallery,
Galerie Caprice Horn is pleased to announce the opening of two new exhibitions about justice and tolerance
The American administration and its allies used a powerful metaphor and stereotyping to win public support in their use of force in the gulf conflict of 1991 “villain attacks powerful victim and then the hero comes to defeat the villain and rescue the victim. Villain is not rational, he does not respond to persuasion or rational reasoning, thus the only way of dealing with him is through defeat”, Paul Wahrhaftig.
A symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace. - Vernor Vinge And They Played For Days, 45 x 160 x 160 cm This media piece is made up of two screens that face each other. One screen plays Fox News on a loop, while the second plays Al Jazeera. The reflections of both screens meet to form ambientcolour - suddenly devoid of varied view points and political agenda. The difference between me and you is the information we are raised on. This piece takes the visual information displayed from the most popular news outlets in the USA and the Middle East and combines their light in a diffused piece of acrylic.
James Clar James Clar’s work is a fusion of technology, pop art, street culture, and design. His work has been an exploration of visual technologies, a study of light and perception, and often charts the common intersection of light that is shared between all visual mediums. Throughout his artistic career, through various developments of media technologies, the one defining factor of his work is its minimalism. James has been recognized by various institutions and publications, following his thesis project for the NYU Interactive Telecommunication’s Program. He has been the artist-inresidence at Eyebeam Atelier in New York, and was the inaugural artist for the FedEx Institute of Technology & Lantana Projects in Memphis. James has exhibited at numerous gallery spaces including New Museum of Contemporary Arts, Chelsea Art Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Milan Trienniale, and did a collaborative piece for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York, which is part of their permanent collection. James currently lives and works in Dubai. Vernissage: 7.6.2010, 6-9pm Exhibition duration: 8.6.-17.9.2010 Opening hours: Tue.-Sat. 11am-6pm Location: Galerie Caprice Horn, Rudi-Dutschke-Str. 26, 10969 Berlin, Germany
On the 11th of June Galerie Caprice Horn would like to welcome you until 9pm along with the galleries around Checkpoint Charly (for a list of participating galleries please see invitation enclosed). We also look forward to invite you to MENASART-FAIR, 13th and 14th of July, 2010, at Pavillon Royal of the BIEL, Beirut-Libanon |
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Dear friends of the gallery,
One of the central features in Justine Otto’s paintings, childhood and adolescence, is also evident in this current cycle of work. Her portraits are almost exclusively of girls and young women. Special opening hours during the gallery weekend quelle heure est il au paradis - Artists Anonymous extended due to popular demand until the end of May 2010! We also look forward to inviting you to Art Hong Kong, 27.-30.5.2010 Booth L09 Artists exhibited: Daniel Canogar Artists Anonymous Matthew Carver Mitra Tabrizian
Daniel & Geo Fuchs
Alona Harpaz
So Young Park
James Clar VIP passes to Art HK, tickets are limited!
Other exhibitions & events
Meghan Boody “Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination"
Curated by Mark Scala Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, USA 2011 Inci Eviner
“Cultural Memory in Modern Turkish Art” Curated by Levent Çalıkoğlu Istanbul Modern 17.2. – 23.5.2010 “A Dream... But not Yours” Curated by Esra Sarigedik and Ceren Erdem National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. April-May 2010 Busan Biennale: Living in Evolution Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea 11.9. – 20.11.2010 “Tableaux Vivant” Curated by Camilla Larson Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm 2010 SAM Art Center-Paris (Residency) Aug. – Jan. 2010–11 Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 2011 Museum show at Philadelphia Museum, USA Curated by November Paynter 18.9.2010 –6.2.2011 Daniel Canogar “Atopia” Curated by Iván de la Nuez CCCB – Centro de Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona, Spain until 24.5.2010 “Travesias”
Public art installation for the atrium of the Justus Lipsius Building commemorating the Spanish Presidency of the UE in 2010. Justus Lipsius Building, European Union Council, Brussels until 30.6.2010 “Daniel Canogar and Stephen Dean: Process in dialogue”
Curated by Cecilia Andersson Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian until 8.5.2010 “Scanner”
Espacio Cultural El Tanque Santa Cruz de Tenerife Santa Cruz de Tenerife until 9.5.2010 “Libertad, Igualdad, Fraternidadr”
Curated by Isabel Durán and Bernard Marcadé Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) until 30.5.2010 “Fiat Lux”
Curated by Paulo Reis Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Gas Natural (MACUF), A Coruña until 30.6.2010 Julia Fullerton-Batten “Dreamlands” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France with Ed Ruscha, Andreas Gursky, Martin Parr 5.5. – 9.8.2010 Sunil Gupta “Indian Highway” HEART – Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark An exhibition of Indian contemporary art with e.g. Shilpa Gupta, Subodh Gupta, Jitish Kallat and Nalini Malani, curated by Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Gunnar B. Kvaran together with
Stinna Toft in cooperation with Serpentine Gallery, London and Astrup
Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway 13.3. – 13.6.2010 “Love’s Body 2 – Sexuality in the age of AIDS” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan 2.9. – 5.12.2010 Residence at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 3.5. – 28.5.2010 Democracia X Bienal Martínez Guerricabeitia “Contra natura” Museo de la Ciudad de Valencia, Spain Khaled Hafez "Tarjama/Translation" The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca (NY), USA 21.8. – 24.9.2010 "Unerwartet / Unexpected: From Islamic Art to Contemporary Art" (Von der islamischen Kunst zur zeitgenössischen Kunst) Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany 12.6. – 10.10.2010 Cairo Biennale 2010 Dec. 2010 – Jan. 2011 Manifesta Biennale Murcia, Spain 2.10.2010 – 9.1.2011 Edgar Martins Solo show at Centre Culturel Caloust Gulbenkian, Paris starting: 19.11.2010 |
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Dear friends of the gallery,
Galerie Caprice Horn is pleased to announce the opening of two new exhibitions: .jpg) quelle heure est il au paradis - Artists Anonymous The gallery presents an important artistic position in the current international discourse: new works by Artists Anonymous (AA). AA is a group of artists working both in London and in Berlin, whose members, as the name implies, prefer to remain anonymous. They create together. Only the work of art is of importance, not the individual input. In principle this is a logical approach and is wonderfully refreshing, since the main focus when viewing art should be on the work itself and not the artist producing it. However this is a deliberate questioning of the contemporary cult-like status of artists, which often distracts from issues of content. The attitude off AA towards art has traditional roots: AA constitutes something like a mediaeval artist’s studio: it’s all about art and nothing else. AA’s self-understanding, however, is very contemporary and expands beyond the notion of the artist’s studio: Everybody concerned with the artistic output and this includes both the creation of visions and translation into the art work itself, is, at least for a moment, part of AA. This seems to be another example of the maxim of Joseph Beuys, that everybody is an artist. In the image / after-image series, the diptychs which play with the positive and negative, reflections of painting become artistic form, especially in relation to pictorialness and the perception of the viewer. Negative images, like negatives in analogue photography, have been around for a considerable time and examples could also be seen in modern painting. The beholder's fascination is generated by the vibrant, brilliant colour and almost bizarre like quality. The deliberate renunciation of everyday appearance raises the issue of perception and the myriad influences that contribute to our "beholding" an object. It is as if there is a connection with the "inner library", our imaginary museum, in the form of a negative (in photography). Fascinating in itself, is that the negative, allows for poetic discourse or fantasy to infuse the negative replication of the original scene or painting. It is as if another world is contained within what was originally perceived to be the "real" world. This contributes to the fascination or excitement generated by the work of AA – the marriage of the negative images together with their positive counterparts, which either functions as a diptych or as individual works. When seen as a diptych however, there is an inherent dialogue that is generated and this in itself is important or central to the work of AA. The intended oscillation seen in comparative vision makes the beholder understand and experience the paintings, which, sometimes, via their motifs, reinforce insight into perception and its process, also when the motif is a quote from art history. "All the world’s a stage" (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Jacques’s monologue) is the background of the paintings showing a stage. They do not, as it were, constitute stage painting, although they may contain images of stage paintings. The situations presented are more absurd than the ones we know from Beckett or Ionesco, yet we experience them as reality. However Butour perception of reality is the image and our imagination that helps interpret the above. Meta-levels arise, a multi-dimensional expansion of the field of experience: From negative to positive, to comparison, to historical context and the influence of these on each other. The possibility of linking everything to everything else, demands an organising vision, to combine the artistic interpretation of the world contained in the paintings with an application of one’s own – to become, so to say, a part of AA. Vernissage: 12.2.2010, 6-9pm Exhibition duration: 13.2. - 25.4.2010 Location: Rudi-Dutschke-Str. 26, 10969 Berlin  Globalised nature Group exhibition
with So Young Park, Matthew Carver, Achim Riethmann, Maslen & Mehra, Ina Viola Blasius and Edgar Martins An international group show brings together international emerged artists and newcomers in a show about nature and urbanisation. Six artists explore the subject of nature and urbanity in today’s setting. The international artistic position of artists from internationally diverse regions displays an impressive mixture of minimalism and pop art. The exhibition starting on 12th Feb. at Galerie Caprice Horn, could hardly be more manifold and diverse. Interesting in particular are themes such as gene technology, nanotechnology, molecular technology, – disciplines that dominate our globalised world. Nature seems to take a dispassionate wait and see attitude towards the manoeuverings and manipulations of the human species. In the dichotomy of man and nature, reference is often made to an idealized portrayal of landscapes et al, that define our world view. An idealized perspective manifests itself in the installation by Ina Viola Blasius. The 2.5 meter installation reverses the relationship of man and nature. Here the grass is over dimensional, man at best a diminutive appearance. The student of Anthony Cragg, rectifies this situation in her second installation “cat and mouse”. In contrast we have a callous but sensitive portrayal of man versus nature in Achim Riethmann’s work. The recently awarded “Art and Prison” prize winner, uses the tradition of panel painting for his watercolours to portray researchers in their white uniforms that attempt to iconographically confront themselves with subjects such as conception, life and death, and bring these into perspective. The London born 31 year old Riethmann delivers a contrast to internationally renown and celebrated Edgar Martins. The Macau born Martins constructs the unobtainable space in his Accidental Theorist series. One is reminded of Marcel Proust “the true paradise is the paradise which we have lost”. With his unusual work Martins has been exhibited at PS1, acquired by the Victoria and Albert museum and is due to be shown at the Caloust Gulbenkian foundation later this year. Matthew Carver who is equally successful and topical, is represented in numerous collections including Saatchi and London Museum collection. The 44 year old Carver is a forerunner with his portrayal of a constructed reality similar to that seen in Ridley Scott’s blade runner. His contribution to the group show links thematically to his floating world exhibition in the London Museum which received numerous accolades. Maslen & Mehra are also concerned with the perception of cultural spaces. The artists Tim Maslen and Jennifer Mehra describe the tension between urbanity and nature very successfully in their photo collages. The arranged portrayal of a roman next to a punk or an astronaut next to a Neanderthal shows the versatility of the artists who work with ornaments, disused objects, drawings, photography etc, into symbolic collages reminiscent of a new surrealism. Somewhat in contrast is the work of So Young Park. Her large scale paintings in the context of the exhibition sharpen the perspective on a fast, furious and ephemeral pop culture. The artist, a pupil of Daniel Richter uses pop art as her artistic medium. Vernissage: 12.2.2010, 6-9pm Exhibition duration: 13.2. - 25.4.2010 Location: Rudi-Dutschke-Str. 26, 10969 Berlin We look forward to invite you to ARCO-Madrid, 17.-21.2.2010 Booth 10D02A, Pavillon 10 Artists exhibited: Khaled Hafez Edgar Martins Bernardí Roig Inci Eviner Stehn Raupach Democracia Daniel Canogar Mitra Tabrizian Daniel & Geo Fuchs Artists Anonymous Alona Harpaz Other exhibitions & events Daniel Canogar "Daniel Canogar and Stephen Dean: Process in dialogue" Curator: Cecilia Andersson Koldo Mitxelena San Sebastian, Spain until 25.02.2010 "Atopia" Curator: Iván de la Nuez CCCB – Centro de Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona, Spain 23.2. – 24.5.2010 Julia Fullerton-Batten "Dreamlands" Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France with Ed Ruscha, Andreas Gursky, Martin Parr 5.5. – 9.8.2010 Sunil Gupta "Self and the Other" Artium of Alava Foundation, Spain until 7.2.2010 "Love’s Body 2 – Sexuality in the age of AIDS" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan 2.9. – 5.12.2010 Democracia X Bienal Martínez Guerricabeitia "Contra natura" Museo de la Ciudad de Valencia, Spain "Against Public" Miró Foundation, Palma de Mallorca, Spain starting: 20.4.2010 Khaled Hafez "Tarjama/Translation" The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca (NY), USA 21.8. – 24.9.2010 "Unerwartet / Unexpected: From Islamic Art to Contemporary Art" (Von der islamischen Kunst zur zeitgenössischen Kunst) Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany 12.6. – 10.10.2010 Cairo Biennale 2010 Dec. 2010 – Jan. 2011 Edgar Martins Solo show at Centre Culturel Caloust Gulbenkian, Paris starting: 19.11.2010 Galerie Caprice Horn Rudi-Dutschke-Str. 26 10969 Berlin Germany Tel.: +49.30.44048929 or: +49.30.44328964 Fax: +49.30.44328965 info@capricehorn.com www.capricehorn.com |
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